Nanterre Cathedral

Well of Saint Genevieve (Sainte Genevi ve), in front of the Nanterre Cathedral (Cathedrale Sainte-Genevi ve-et-Saint-Maurice de Nanterre), 1924 - 1937, by architects Georges Pradelle and Yves-Marie Froidevaux, Nanterre, Hauts-de-Seine, France. According to the legend of Saint Genevieve, born at the place of the cathedral circa 422, Saint Genevieve's tears -because of her mother being opposed to her mysticism- shed into the well, would have cured her mother from blindness. Since then it is a place of pilgrimage, including Anne of Austria, future mother of Louis XIV who came to the well in 1636 to grant her wish of maternity. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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13427518

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45106552

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3616px x 5408px (8.2MB)

Credit

Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans

Source

Photograph by Manuel Cohen